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Cobordism category of plumbed 3-manifolds and intersection product structures

Geometric Topology 2009-01-27 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a category of graded commutative rings with certain algebraic morphisms, to investigate the cobordism category of plumbed 3-manifolds. In particular, we define a non-associative distributive algebra that gives necessary conditions for an abstract morphism between the homologies of two plumbed 3-manifolds to be realized geometrically by a cobordism. Here we also consider the homology cobordism monoid, and give a necessary condition using w-invariants for the homology 3-spheres to belong to the inertia group associated to some homology 3-spheres.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3941,
  title  = {Cobordism category of plumbed 3-manifolds and intersection product structures},
  author = {Yoshihiro Fukumoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3941},
  year   = {2009}
}

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25 pages